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The humorous courtier : a comedy, as it hath been presented with good applause at the private house in Drury-Lane

by: Shirley, James, 1596-1666; Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer; Cooke, William, active 1632-1642, bookseller; Becket, James, active 1636-1641, bookseller; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner. MB; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner. MB

Publication date: 1640

Publisher: London : Printed by T[homas]. C[otes]. for William Cooke, and are to be sold by Iames Becket, in the Inner Temple

Collection: bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

In verse

Printer's name from STC

Signatures: A℗ø B-Íþ K℗ø

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration

English short title catalogue

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in ca. 19th-century green goatskin and marbled papers, rebacked. The title is stamped in gilt along the spine. The bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The number "3415" is written in a ca. 18th-/19th-century hand in the lower portion of the inner margin on the title page. The ink stamp of Jon Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe, is present on the verso of the title page